> -----Original Message-----
> From: LISTSERV site administrators' forum [mailto:LSTSRV-
> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Paul Russell
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 1:58 PM
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> Subject: Re: list owner list
>
> On 12/12/2007 2:39 PM, Steve Eckard wrote:
> > Greetings, all.
> > I am sure this has probably been asked, but here goes anyway. We
> currently
>  > have 815 lists. Is there any way to generate a list of the owners of
>  > these lists and put it into a text file? This would be helpful in
> determining
>  > how many owners we have that are not actually here. This in turn may
> be
>  > helpful in determining if we want to use ldap authentication. Thanks
> in
>  > advance for any input.
> >
>
> I do not know whether this is possible in LISTSERV 15.x, but it is not
> possible in LISTSERV 1.8e (14.something). You will need to write a
> script
> to execute listview against each list and parse the output to extract
> the
> owner addresses. We have a script which extracts all the owner
> addresses
> from all the lists, but the output is just the list of addresses, which
> is
> used to update our list owners' announcement list.
>
> --
> Paul Russell, Senior Systems Administrator
> OIT Messaging Services Team
> University of Notre Dame
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That's exactly what we do. I wrote a script that parses the output from listview and creates a web page so that the listserv admins can easily find list owners. It's made our life a lot easier.

        al

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